In her State of the City speech Wednesday, the legislative leader is expected to propose putting up new public housing in unused plots within existing NYCHA developments.
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Tenants’ Rights at Risk in NYCHA Conversions, Warns Human Rights Group
The city Housing Authority’s years-long effort to place public housing into the hands of private managers shows signs of compromising tenants’ rights, a human rights group charged Thursday. Citing increased eviction rates and a lack of oversight once buildings are turned over, Human Rights Watch released the results of a year-long examination of NYCHA’s plan […]
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NYCHA Reaches Deal to Monitor Mold Mess at Privately Run Buildings
The city Housing Authority announced a groundbreaking new plan Thursday to aggressively monitor public housing apartments once they’re placed into private management to ensure that tenants aren’t plagued by toxic mold. The new agreement is part of court-monitored oversight of NYCHA’s persistent mold problems and comes after multiple reports that private sector managers and contractors […]
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NYCHA Housing Fix Clouded by Tenant Complaints About Private Managers
THE CITY’s examination found residents of several Brooklyn and Manhattan developments placed into the RAD program have alleged that private contractors and building managers botched renovations. Now some officials say an infusion of federal funds could render RAD obsolete.
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Manhattan Lead Paint Confusion Casts New Doubts on Moving Public Housing to Private Management
When the New York City Housing Authority turned over hundreds of public housing apartments in Manhattan to a private management company last fall, the new managers were required to clean up any lead paint hazards lingering on the walls. In June, the managers sent tenants notices that Harley Plumbing & Heating LLC would soon arrive […]
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Alleged Mold Coverup Stains Public Housing Move to Private Management
Last fall, city Housing Authority carpenters performing work at a public housing complex in Washington Heights made a disturbing discovery inside a tenant’s bathroom: black splotches flowering on what appeared to be a newly installed drop ceiling. When they removed the ceiling, they found a thick coating of toxic black mold festering in the rafters […]
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NYCHA Mold Court Deal Faces Do-Over as Judge Moves to Protect All Tenants
Seven years after the city housing authority signed off on a court-monitored agreement to clean up its toxic mold problem, a fatal flaw in the deal has triggered the judge in charge to order NYCHA and lawyers representing public housing tenants back to the drawing board. Manhattan Federal Judge William Pauley cited what he called […]
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After Demolition Scare, Chelsea NYCHA Tenants Forge New Path With Private Management
Two years ago, City Hall floated a plan that, for many, amounted to a worst case scenario for public housing tenants: demolish and rebuild parts of two New York City Housing Authority complexes in Chelsea. The 2019 proposal for the Fulton and Chelsea-Elliott Houses was met with swift and intense backlash as tenants, housing advocates […]
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Can Mayoral Hopeful Shaun Donovan Save New York City’s Crumbling Public Housing?
The ex-city and federal housing boss created a controversial private management program now used in NYC. NYCHA’s lead-poisoning scandal festered while he was in Washington. Now Donovan says he can rescue residents.
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How NYCHA Allegedly Closed the Book on Repairs It Didn’t Do
One by one, the nation’s biggest public housing authority is turning over management of tens of thousands of its 175,000 apartments to the private sector. And with every apartment that goes into private hands, long-awaited repairs are deemed “closed” — even though the fixes haven’t taken place, a housing advocacy group charged in court papers […]